Gloria Callen
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Gloria Marie Callen (December 21, 1923 – September 2, 2016) was an American backstroke swimmer.[1] She was the 1942 Associated Press Athlete of the Year.[2]
Biography
Callen was born in 1923 in Freeport, New York.[3] She married Herbert Erskine Jones Jr. in 1944.[4]
Callen set 35 American records and one world record in swimming, and won 13 American championships. Due to World War II, she was never able to compete in world championships or Olympic Games, even though she qualified for the 1940 Summer Olympics. She quit swimming when she went to college at Barnard College and joined the American Women's Voluntary Services.[5]
Callen was one in a row of glamorous swimming champions, and was voted one of America's 13 best-dressed women by the New York's Fashion Academy.[5]
Honors
- 1942: Associated Press Athlete of the Year[2]
- 1976: inducted in the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame[6]
- 1984: International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer[5]
See also
References
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